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"In Himmels Rosen weiden" - Dropping the reflexive pronoun
It is important to take into account that the German spoken at Bach's time was different from current German. Not looking for those differences in the language is a hermeneutic mistake.
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"In Himmels Rosen weiden" - Dropping the reflexive pronoun
"weiden" has actually two vastly different meanings:
in a non-reflexive use it means "to graze":
Die Kühe weiden auf der Wiese.
There is also a noun "die Weide", which ...
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